Kyabirwa Surgical Center

Global Surgical Initiatives Inc. Kyabirwa Surgical Center (KSC) is an outpatient surgical facility in rural eastern Uganda in Kyabirwa-Bujagali village. Members from the Mount Sinai Department of Surgery Advisory Board came together to fundraise for the establishment of this facility with a mission of improving access to high quality surgical services in rural Uganda. 
This surgical center was founded to disprove a long-standing misperception that surgery is either too complex or too expensive to be offered in rural communities. Many underprivileged communities have kept away from surgical treatments due to a lack of adequate resources, a lack of awareness that they are living with surgically correctable conditions, or the significant cost of surgical care. The aim of this project is to demonstrate that everyone who needs surgical care can obtain it safely and affordably.